coal subsidies

Coal in Australia: A broader view of costs and benefits

Harvard economics Professor David Glaeser has an interesting editorial on the role of mining in Australia, published yesterday by Bloomberg.  The basic thrust of his argument is that capital-i

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State funding of DKRW coal-to-liquids plant: financially risky, contrary to purpose of Mineral Trust Fund

Houston-based DKRW Advanced Fuels has a dream:  they want to turn a chunk of Wyoming's vast coal reserves into 10,600 barrels of gasoline per day.  They want to capture most of the carbon

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Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal

Each stage in the life cycle of coal—extraction, transport, processing, and combustion—genera ...

Budgetary impacts of coal production in TN and WV: net losses to state government

Following the general approach used for Kentucky, researchers from Downstream Strategies and the West Virginia Center

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Coal and Renewables in Central Appalachia: The Impact of Coal on the West Virginia State Budget

In this report, we examine the net impact of the coal industry on the West Virginia state budget ...

Coal and Renewables in Central Appalachia: The Impact of Coal on the Tennessee State Budget

Although coal has played an important historical role, the Tennessee coal industry now provides f ...

IGCC/CCS -- Federal and State Incentives for Early Commercial Deployment

Through its focus on incentives for the coal industry, this document provides one of the best sum ...

Talking coal subsidies

Kudos to Sierra Club and Synapse Energy Economics for taking a look at coal subsidies.  In a report released ye

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Phasing Out Federal Subsidies for Coal

The purpose of this report is to urge consistency in the development and implementation of federa ...

Data on Coal Industry R&D Spending on CCS

Despite industry advertising to the contrary, an

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